👐 Tulsa’s Towering Bronze Landmark One of the stranger stops I built into a Mystery GPS Tour. Zach didn’t know what was coming. This was a stop on one of our Mystery GPS Tours—the kind I love creating from scratch, pin by pin, with no labels or explanations. Zach takes the wheel while I load …
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I’m not sure why some towns collect an abundance of wonderfully weird stuff, but we LOVE it — and the Meadow Gold District Tulsa proves it in spades. Sitting along historic Route 66 (11th Street), the Meadow Gold District Tulsa has become one of Oklahoma’s most fun stops for roadside attraction hunters and Mother Road …
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When we read that Tulsa, Oklahoma was home to the “Center of the Universe,” we figured — why not? It’s not every day you get to stand in the middle of everything. Or at least in the middle of a concrete circle with a good PR team. Either way, it sounded like the kind of …
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⛽Heart of Route 66 Auto Museum, Sapulpa, Oklahoma The World’s Tallest Gas Pump Supulpa? Confirmed!! We didn’t plan to stop. We were just rolling through Sapulpa when this 66-foot gas pump caught our eye — towering, red, and impossible to ignore. It sits outside the Heart of Route 66 Auto Museum like it’s daring you …
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A Towering Tulsa Oddity on Skelly Drive Tulsa, Oklahoma has its fair share of unique landmarks, from the Golden Driller to hidden gems tucked away on quiet streets—but none are quite as unexpected as the World’s Largest Bottle of Hair Tonic. At first glance, this towering 25-foot structure looks more like a bizarre advertisement than …
Will we manage to Leave Arkansas?? Well, we were still in Arkansas! We actually love the state, so why try and leave Arkansas? Being travelers, we like to move around. Being in one state for this long …. Here’s the deal… We travel in the bus… but we pull a vehicle also! From the start …
Sometimes the best discoveries happen when you’re just taking care of boring car business and suddenly notice a street name that makes you curious… The first time we were in Fort Smith, we completely missed that Mr. Peanut was even there until we were stationary for a minute dealing with car stuff and needed something …
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Gardens, Rockhouding and More is what was in store for us ! I was super excited to get out of Arkansas! Not because the state is anything but fabulous, we had been in Arkansas for a WHILE ! We had been in Bentonville, more specifically, for far too long. Lots of great places to visit, …
Sometimes you need a place to decompress, to ground yourself, and to remember that beauty exists in quiet spaces…the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks is that place. Botanical Garden of the Ozarks in Fayetteville was our first stop after the sensory chaos of Amped Electric Games — and it delivered exactly what we needed: quiet, …
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We hope You and Your Family had a Wonderful Thanksgiving! Sometimes plans change on the road. I had planned Thanksgiving Dinner for Zach and myself, along with one friend. Plans changed for that friend, so it was just going to be the two of us. I was just a bit off on the plan. I …